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Ships Passenger Lists to England

What Exists in Ships Passenger Lists to England?

There
are British inbound passenger lists available on Ancestry.com. The original lists reside at Kew.

All ships carrying passengers in or out of any British port
were required by law to deposit an official passenger list
with the relevant port authorities

The records for all these ship passengers travelling
between 1890 and 1960 survives within the collection of
original British Board of Trade passenger lists.

Board of Trade Immigrant Records

The Passenger Lists, Inwards (BT 26 ), 1878 to 1888 and from 1890 on, contain the names of all persons arriving in the United Kingdom from places outside Europe and not within the Mediterranean Sea, unless the vessels sailed originally from outside Europe and picked up passengers in a European or Mediterranean port en route.

The lists are copies furnished by ships’ masters, as required by law, to port officers of the Ministry of Transport and sent to the Board of Trade for use in compiling statistics. The information given in the lists includes age, occupation and sometimes the address in the United Kingdom of each passenger, and date of his/her entering the country: but there is no indication as to how long he/she intended to stay.

The passenger lists are arranged under the names of the ports of arrival. ADM 30/35 contains passenger lists of H M steam packets carrying passengers to, from and within the Mediterranean area 1831 to 1834. The keeping of passenger lists was discontinued in 1960.